David Harsanyi wrote about the objection to the location of 18 affordable apartment units at Stapleton. Denver’s conversion of the 4,700-acre Stapleton International Airport into the Stapleton neighborhood is a public-private undertaking. Mayors Federico Peña, Wellington Webb and John Hickenlooper have all required that “common good” housing goals be integrated into Stapleton’s master plan. People should be able to work where they live and live where they work. That means everyone – from the waitstaff at the restaurants to CEOs. Read more…

Unbelievable! Is it any wonder that Americans are disgusted with politicians and lawyers? That former Boulder mayor and ex-judge Richard McLean and his lawyer wife Edith Stevens are attempting to take someone else’s property only reinforces my disgust with our legal system. Wait until Bill O’Reilly gets hold of this one. Colorado will be, and should be, embarrassed. Read more…

David Harsanyi’s flippant column does The Denver Post and Coloradans a huge disservice.

“I don’t want Democrats teaching my children global warming hysteria,” he writes, noting he and his peers of “knuckle-dragging troglodytes” are of the opinion that global warming’s danger is still unsettled. Read more…

David Harsanyi, like many in society, seems to cherish the ideal that it’s the parents’ responsibility to provide for the sexuality issues of their children. But when these parents fail, the school system is left to try to educate children in the middle of each child’s life equivalent of a “teenage train wreck,” the teen pregnancy. Read more…

I was sad to learn that veteran columnist Diane Carmen will be leaving the Post’s staff to pursue other opportunities. Op-ed is such an integral part of contemporary news, and Diane Carmen is one of the best I have encountered in thirty years of reading newspapers. Read more…

For ten years I have brought my third grade students from Iowa
Elementary, an Aurora Public School, to the Colorado Symphony Orchestra (CSO) for their Youth Concert programs. As a music teacher, I realize that we must go beyond videos and recordings in the classroom if we want to expose our students to the magical experience of classical music. The CSO has done an excellent job by offering Youth Concerts to students from all walks of life. Read more…

David Harsanyi outdoes himself with his latest anti-tax, anti-community screed. It is classic Libertarian. If it were up to him, government would provide no services and perform no functions other than maintenance of a national defense, if that. There’s a reason why Libertarianism has not prospered in our society – most Americans accept that when one lives in a community, there are certain functions performed by government that we cannot as individuals perform for ourselves. Read more…

David Harsanyi’s reasoning in his column ‘Economy in tatters? Look closer’ (Post August 13) is a non-sequitor. In the current economy, the relationship between innovation and the economy is not that simple. When the motor car was discovered, America had a head start of almost 80 years before countries like Japan caught up, giving it a virtual dominance in the marketplace for that time. Read more…

Although David Harsanyi’s July 11th column tries hard to find scandal
where none exists, it does succeed in illustrating the peculiar
sickness that America seems to be afflicted with on the general
subject of nudity. The attitudes Harsanyi expresses were the very
seeds of the recent, and ridiculous, controversy over the nude
sculpture in Loveland that should be familiar to regular readers of
The Post. And such issues certainly aren’t new – my mother has clear memories of her days as an art student at the University of Wyoming and the fur that flew in Laramie when the UW Art Department began using live nude models in its classes. Read more…

Good column from David Harsanyi this morning on Larry Manzanares’ tragic suicide. Whatever led up to these events, it’s long past time to hide behind minority victimhood. Will it be a “bad time for a black to be a presidential candidate” if Obama loses the election? (It’s a hell of a good time!) If Berto Gonzales gets the boot, will it be because he’s Hispanic? Enough already. Personal responsibility is not ethno-specific.

Vincent Carroll is The Denver Post's editorial page editor. He has been writing commentary on politics and public policy in Colorado since 1982 and was originally with the Rocky Mountain News, where he was also editor of the editorial pages until that newspaper gave up the ghost in 2009.

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